People using our drive to turn around

[Allthenameshavegone1972]

We live in a cul de sac with a primary school at the end. Occasionally we have caught people on camera using our drive to turn around, but not at school times. There is no reason to use our drive, there us plenty of road space. We've just spent a lot of money last year on having it blocked page.
This is really irritating me, it's just cheeky & lazy. Would I sound petty if I put it onto the village Facebook page?
I don't want to sound petty to the rest of the village, but if this is some parent from thd school who thinks they're entitled, I want them to stop.

Penguin bollard is an easy fix. Not sure why but this would really annoy me too!

Are people really so dim that they can't see why this is an issue?

The 'I couldn't get wound up by this' brigade are out in force today aren't they?! You can tell who the cheeky fuckers are who use peoples driveways to turn around in!!

YOU may not be bothered about this, but the OP IS bothered/wound up by it, and she has a right to be. Every time a car shoves its arse onto her driveway, it's adding the damage, and wear and tear of it. Not to mention potentially dropping oil onto it if a vehicle has an oil leak.

My neighbour had a lovely shiny new tarmac drive last year (costing £2500) 2 cars wide and 3 cars deep, and every fucking day, a bunch of cheeky wassocks used it as a turnaround point, to go back out of the cul de sac, because they are apparently incapable of doing a 3 point turn in the road. 🙄

After the 25th driver had done this in the space of a week, she got bollards put up.

Another neighbour had a similar issue, and one driver bumped into the front garden fence and took the panel out! Then drove off! So she put 3 breeze blocks on her drive to stop people coming onto her drive, as she wasn't going out for a few days, and wasn't expecting anyone. She had some cheeky cunt bang on her door, as the breeze blocks had damaged the underside of their car/pulled the backbox off/part of the exhaust when they had reversed onto her driveway (in the dark) to turn around.

Yelling and cussing they were, but she just stood their stony faced and said 'sue me then. Shouldn't have reversed onto my driveway!' She never heard from them again. Idiots. 😂

@Allthenameshavegone1972 Definitely get bollards or a chain across your driveway.

No I can not see the issue. Cars turning on a driveway make no difference to its lifespan. Someone hitting a fence or wall turning in a driveway, is probably more likely to hit a fence or wall if they are having to turn just in the road.

It drives me nuts when people do this. Especially as I live in a cul-de-sac and there’s a roundabout ten seconds away in the street so all they have to do is turn the corner. It’s particularly aggravating when it’s large vans which can damage the driveway and because they’re generally frequent visitors to the street so know that there’s a roundabout.

A friend’s cat was also killed by some idiot doing this and a neighbour had her front garden damaged.

I know what a bollard is. What is a Penguin Bollard?
Does it pop down out of the way if the owner pushes a key in their car?

I would prefer an electric sliding fence that operated with a button from the car, if I were to put up a physical barrier.

Cars turning on a driveway make no difference to its lifespan.

Depends on the material. Tarmac gets chewed up.

Just use cones to block the drive. I live rurally and have to drop dd16 to get her school bus. There’s maybe 5 cars dropping in the mornings. The people who own the house beside it put cones up so we can’t turn there. It’s a nuisance tbh but I understand too how annoying it must be for them.

OP expressly said it was block paving, not tarmac.

Yes I think you're being petty. You're out when it happens and if you didn't have a camera you wouldn't even know about it. Occasionally a vehicle uses the end of our driveway to turn around, I only know if I happen to be looking out of the window. It is very low down the scale of things that bother me.

There are a few house around here that have the chains across with no turning on them.

What's a 'remote control blocker', please? Can anyone link to these?

We occasionally have a similar problem - our drive goes uphill from a narrow lane, is not in a cul-de-sac and isn't a natural turning point for anyone. Usually happens when a large vehicle is blocking the lane, so not frequently enough to do any significant damage. But it is a block-paved drive and they are expensive to maintain.

I did get arsey when someone - tradespeople doing work on the opposite property whose drive was quite free for them to park on - decided for some inexplicable reason to park his van on mine. The drive is T-shaped and it's not possible to get a car in or out someone's parked at the bottom of the hill. There are elevated, quite high walled gardens on either side.

That time, I did give them a flea in their ear. No undignified shouting, swearing or insults, but I did tell them my private drive was not a public car park and I own that my tone was sharp. When they were extremely rude in response I emailed a complaint to their employer.

World's full of them.

If I’d just paid a lot of money to redo my drive I think it would irritate me too, OP (and possibly anyway - just because drivers who can’t do basic maneuvers like turning in a cul-de-sac annoy me). Nevertheless, I think you would probably look petty if you posted in the local FB group.

Learning to let it go will probably be better for you.

I also think it sounds petty, not because I'm a raging commie who thinks it's fine in principle if 25 oil-drooling mud-encrusted skip trucks an hour are queuing to turn around in a private driveway made of finest silk, but because it's disproportionate to the OP's actual complaint which is that "occasionally" when she's out she comes back to review her video footage and discovers someone's reversed onto her block paved drive.

I can see how Ring doorbell footage might be useful if there actually IS a problem but coming back home and going through it to see if you can FIND a problem strikes me as a real waste of life.

lovely shiny new tarmac drive
What an oxymoron!

Install a gate or a chain.

If you have a path then your garden up to your gate is Highway so they can reverse in that bit

I can understand the annoyance but it will come over a bit unhinged posting this on facebook. How about parking at the end of your drive to stop them?

I don’t know if you’re asking for solutions OP but we found the school quite helpful in raising this with parents. It’s easy for them to send out a letter saying they’ve had complaints from residents about turning in private driveways and to be considerate when dropping off and collecting from the school.

We are having this issue at the moment due to the front of our site being opened up for building works . They literally stare us down as they drive into our property and turn drives me absolutely insane. I bought several signs from Amazon that say private property no turning and they have worked really well so far!

I have now read the update that it happens when you go out. What about stop looking at your doorbell footage. Is it that much of a big deal if you are not even there? Assuming that they are not driving over grass or plants.

I can see how it would be annoying if it was happening when you were in, but if you're out I wouldn't let it bother you. If you didn't have a camera you'd be none the wiser anyway.

Just get a gate?